From: Jeff Bone (jbone@jump.net)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 12:50:24 PPET
Boller wrote:
> So my question is:
> is this good or bad for the image of democracy worldwide?
That's all we've got --- the *image* of democracy. The founding fathers were
scared shitless of real democracy, hence we have a "representative republic"
and the Electoral College. The cat's out of the bag, though --- it should be
clear to everyone that our fine "democracy" ...just ain't.
;-)
jb
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